Musical instruments

I express my creativity through singing. For as long as my family and I can remember, I have loved to sing. In elementary school, I was always the shy and quiet type, but when I went to choir practice after school, I felt like I really belonged somewhere. But as much as I love to sing, I wasn't always good at it. At choir practice, I always sang as loud as I could, sometimes to the dismay of my choir director. But over time, my pitch got better. I started taking voice lessons, and through…

Violins are the most popular and the most well known instrument in the strings orchestra. This often leads to some people thinking of every strings instrument in terms of the violin. For example, a cello is a “big violin.” Lots of strings players who don't play the violin are often enraged by comments like these, but how close are cellos to violins? Cellos are actually very similar to violins, as their alias suggests, but violins and cellos are also very different. Violins, for starters, are…

As my grandfather took up the oboe in his childhood, he found that he had passion for music. This radiated around him and brought joy to others. After a stretched and forever-going rehearsal, he was offered to enroll in a conducting class. Without hesitation, he accepted. He practiced for hours and hours, studying the scores of V. Williams all the way to Pre-Baroque. After their concert round, the orchestra was given new music. My grandfather’s maestro, offered the baton to my grandfather,…

I am very involved both inside and outside of school. I am in Advanced Orchestra, Women’s Choir, Varsity show choir, Advanced Drama, Musical Theatre, Key Club, as well as partake in the schools’ Varsity Tennis and Cheer team. I have been in Orchestra sense sixth grade, I first started out playing the violin but two years ago I switched over to cello. This is the first year that my school has had an “Advanced Orchestra”. I have been first Chair and section leader for the cello’s for most of this…

At 10 years old, my sisters and I were taken away from our mom. We then isolated and were sent to other relatives as opposed to going to foster care. My grandma took me in on my mom's side. She was a piano player, a minister, and as a result of her I learned of Beethoven and every single other sort of music. It was at ten years old that my adoration for music happened. I played each melody I could discover about having a broken heart, depression, absolution, meanings of adoration and family,…

I had been doing shows with an organization called Tapestry theater, which allows special needs youth to star in musicals with the support of an understudy/mentor, and although I loved doing Tapestry, I had not yet found the mentee that would revive my hope. I had noticed Cameron, a small, rambunctious, middle school boy with epilepsy and autism, during the winter show…

From a young age, one of the most influential aspects of my life has been music. At the age of three I was handed a violin, and was encouraged to continue lessons throughout most of my childhood. I was taught where to place my feet, how to support my posture perfectly, and where exactly to place my fingers to produce the right note. This was the first example of music that I had, and through this I was shown that music is precision, perfection, and that the rules needed to be followed to make it…

Cecil Taylor’s piece is an ever-changing flow of symphony and saxophone tones outstretched over the underlay of complex tunes and rhythms. His piece holds bold, strong notes that do not outstay their welcome. They are resounding but not overpowering, almost as if Cecil is speaking words themselves through each note he plays. His delicate and playful uses of rhythmic tunes carry a story of potent color, ranging from a swimming array of blues to a dwindling violet and star-speckled twilight. His…

Joropo is the national dance of Venezuela as of the mid-twentieth century thanks to dictator Perez Jimenez. It is a folk couple dance that can also be performed by a fully female group. The women wear brightly colored dresses with large, flowing skirts as is similar to much of the attire worn in traditional latin dances. The men wear a button up shirt (typically white or black), with matching pants (typically khaki or black, respectively), and a wide brimmed hat. The female does many spins and…

an electrical engineer. This model was called a frying pan after its round, small body and long neck ("The Invention of the Electric Guitar."). Many attempts at amplifying guitars had come prior to this patent, but most were attempts to amplify instruments with resonant bodies such as violins and acoustic guitars. The patent filed by Beauchamp was the first for an…